Xiang Yan said unexpectedly: "Oh? How so? ”

Xiang Yuyue was a little curious: "What, you don't know?" ”

"We have a ban on engraving books in Da Zhou."

"People are not allowed to print books without permission."

"So there are very few folk books, and I basically can't buy them."

"Everything you can buy is still expensive."

"The people don't have much spare money in the first place, so how can they still be interested in buying books."

Because Xiang Yan has no memory of the original owner of the body.

Of course, according to the original Xiang Yan's simple appearance, whether you know this ban on engraving books or not.

After coming to this dynasty, Xiang Yan didn't pay attention to this aspect of the situation.

If it weren't for Xiang Yuyue telling him about it today.

He didn't even know that Da Zhou had such a ban!

It's no wonder that the big families basically monopolize culture.

In the whole world, only the powerful have books, and only if the culture is not monopolized, there are ghosts.

"No, the harm of this ban on books is especially higher than that of the family."

"The family's monopoly on knowledge is just a surface, and this ban is the root cause of today's situation!"

"I thought that the number one enemy of our new courtyard was the family."

"Today it seems that it is not, but this ban!"

"No, I can't wait for a moment, I have to enter the palace now and persuade the emperor to lift the ban on books."

Xiang Yuyue felt a little unrealistic:

"It's almost night now, and the courtiers can't enter the palace at night, even if you go to the palace, it's impossible for the guards guarding the gate to report to you."

"I can't get in."

Xiang Yan thought about it, Xiang Yuyue made sense, it seemed that she could only go to Princess Yuanhua.

Courtiers had this restriction, but royalty did not.

can let Princess Yuanhua directly take Xiang Yan in to see Zhao Longji.

Just do it, Xiang Yan immediately came to the outside of Princess Yuanhua's mansion.

Because Xiang Yan had given a reward before.

The doorman brothers were very positive when they saw Xiang Yan.

Seeing Xiang Yan come again.

Without waiting for him to speak, the doorman brother took the initiative to come up:

"Master Horse, come to see the princess again."

"But it's a pity, it's too unfortunate, the princess went to the palace today, and she hasn't come back yet."

Xiang Yan was dumbfounded when she heard this.

This is really the more urgent and unlucky, the more unfortunate things will come to the door.

After returning to the Right Prime Minister's Mansion, Xiang Yuyue comforted him and said:

"It's been banned for decades, and there's no rush to be at this time."

"What's the difference between a day earlier and a day later?"

"Hurry up and go to sleep, just wake up early tomorrow."

After saying that, she yawned, put on her pajamas, and went to sleep with a doll bear in her arms.

Since Xiang Yuyue came over and occupied the master bedroom, Xiang Yan could only sleep in the guest room on the side.

When I encountered this tonight, and saw her hateful behavior of occupying her bedroom, I immediately felt very aggrieved.

thought that if she wasn't her second aunt, she would have to be punished well.

Of course, it is punished with a stick, brothers, don't think about it.

The next day.

After going to the court, because of Xiang Yan's identity of walking in the study now.

Without Zhao Longji summoning him, he can also take the initiative to go to the study to talk to Zhao Longji.

So Xiang Yan found Zhao Longji and said that the ban on engraving books was lifted.

"No."

Unexpectedly, Zhao Longji disagreed.

"As early as the Warring States Period, politicians led by Shang Ying put forward the idea of fooling the people to govern the country."

"This point of view has been proved to be a very effective policy of governing the country with the unification of the six kingdoms by the Qin Dynasty and the subsequent Han Dynasty and the Qin system."

"It's not a good thing to get people to start thinking."

"And from ancient times to today, there are many banned books stipulated by successive dynasties, and these forbidden books have basically been inherited and banned by later dynasties."

"The reason why banned books can be controlled to this situation today is that they are not popular among the people."

"The ban on books is indispensable."

"It's been a practice for thousands of years."

"It's hard to predict the consequences if you let it go easily."

Xiang Yan persuaded him:

"But Your Majesty, the house is full of books from the family, but the children of the poor family have no books to read."

"This is the key to the Maison's grasp of the lifeblood of culture today."

"Let it continue to develop."

"The family will only get stronger and stronger, and the Hanmen will only get weaker and weaker."

"This is really a great threat to the long-term peace and stability of the country."

"If we want to change this situation, isn't that why we decided to implement the new hospital in the first place?"

Zhao Longji still hesitated:

"You can't just drink another cup full of poison just because there is poison in this glass."

"The family's afflictions are just chronic, poison, and there is still a lot of room for treatment if it is well regulated."

"And open to the people, it is really difficult to estimate how strong the medicine will be, even if it is poisoned instantly, it is possible!"

Xiang Yan thought about it and didn't persuade again, but told an ancient story to Zhao Longji.

Legend has it that in ancient times, the land of the Central Plains was flooded, and people were in hardship.

The ruler at that time decided to send someone to control the water.

And the candidate for water control, the first one is Dayu's father, Kun.

"Your Majesty, do you remember how Kun failed?"

"What he did was to use a mythical substance, to block up the waters."

"Of course, he failed in the end."

"Later, Kun's son Dayu continued to be selected to control the water."

"He used the method of dredging all the water in the Central Plains into the sea."

"So he succeeded in the end."

"Your Majesty, the same is true for Minzhi, it's better to be blocked!"

"It was the previous dynasties that used the method of blocking, so in the end they all died."

"Because Minzhi can't be stopped, it will one day break through the shackles, and then destroy everything that traps it!"

Zhao Longji pondered for Xiang Yan's last sentence.

The expression is serious.

After a long moment he spoke again:

"That's what you're talking about."

"What are you going to do?"

Xiang Yan was happy, this was moved by his own words.

So he hurriedly said:

"As long as we ourselves occupy the high ground of public opinion, this position will not be occupied by the enemy!"

"We can publish some official readings to guide the people on what is right."

Zhao Longji was curious: "Official reading? ”

Xiang Yan nodded: "Yes, it can be those books of the Confucian Heaven and Earth Monarchs." ”

"It could also be some boxy paper."

"We can publish articles on paper."

"The content of the article can be the political trend, the introduction of people's livelihood, the interpretation of the law, or even the serialization of novels, or even some small jokes in the corner of the page."

"These pieces of paper are our weapons."

"A weapon to seize the high ground of public opinion!"

"We can give this weapon a name, and I'll call it a newspaper!"